Victorian Cottage Gardens
Title | Victorian Cottage Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | David Squire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Gardens, Victorian |
ISBN | 9781858331812 |
The Victorian Cottage Garden
Title | The Victorian Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Waller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780947338824 |
Cottage Gardens
Title | Cottage Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Masset |
Publisher | National Trust |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1911657232 |
A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style. The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life. But it has found new expressions from the Arts & Crafts movement to the present day. This book showcases a selection of National Trust cottage gardens, famous and obscure, including writer Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Dorset; the flower-filled cottage garden created at Sissinghurst, Kent, by Vita Sackville-West and harold Nicolson; the Tudor manor Cothele in Cornwall, Beatrix Potter's Cumbrian home, Hill Top, and the picturesque Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. Cottage Gardens also features some of the most famous non-National Trust examples from around the country, including Kelmscott Manor, Dove Cottage and Eastgrove Cottage Garden. With practical advice on creating your own cottage garden, including key plants and techniques, this is a wonderful companion for all garden enthusiasts. With climbing roses, bright hollyhocks, pathways edged with honeysuckle, blossom-filled orchards and wildflower meadows, this is the perfect book to capture the idyllic British country garden.
Victorian Cottage Residences
Title | Victorian Cottage Residences PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Jackson Downing |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486142825 |
This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs — including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more — and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans).
Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens
Title | Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Cottage gardens |
ISBN |
American Victorian Cottage Homes
Title | American Victorian Cottage Homes PDF eBook |
Author | Palliser, Palliser & Co |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780486265063 |
Reprinted from a rare 1878 offering from a leading Northeastern architectural firm: front and side elevations, floor plans and descriptions of 50 "practical designs of low and medium priced houses," ranging from 2- to 11-room dwellings, most in the cottage style. With complete specifications for two, a sample contract, advertisements, and price estimates.
The Cottage Garden
Title | The Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Twigs Way |
Publisher | Shire Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-04-19 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780747808183 |
Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combines beauty and utility, pride and productivity. Immortalized in images of thatched cottages with flower-filled borders and ducks on the path, what was the reality of the cottage garden? For many the garden was essential to keep food on the table. For those more fortunate, the garden was a blaze of color and a status symbol. Gardens did not just appeal to the senses, however; they played a philosophical and moral role in British society, and thus in British social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor, or as an aesthetic and social ideal of a utopian 'merrie England'.